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I am happy to announce that I will be offering a Garmin Etrex Legend as a prize for attendees of the Copper Rush event.

To enter:
In order to qualify you must log the event as "attended" and you must post at least one picture from the event with your log.

Winner:
The winner will be chosen two weeks after the event, or after the event is archived (whichever comes first). It will be a pseudo-random draw. I will pick my favourite 10 images from the event gallery and randomly draw the winner from that.

Tips:
The more images you upload with your logs, the better your chances are but only one image from each cacher may be in my "top 10". If you are caching as a family, be sure that each family member logs attended with their own account and posts unique pictures to increase your odds.

Prize collection:
If the winner is in the Lower mainland/Fraser Valley, we can arrange for pickup/drop off. If the winner is beyond reasonable driving distance from Langley I will ship the prize to you at my expense.

So don't forget your cameras if you are heading to the Copper Rush!! Hope to see you all there.

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A couple other things to clarify as I cant seem to find the edit button for my previous post.

-There is only one prize.

-Final judging conditions / deadlines may change depending on the quantity of images in the gallery for the event (but will not be sooner than stated to allow everyone time to upload their pictures and logs)

-Winner's caching name and winning image will be posted in this thread after the winner is drawn, and I will also send an email through the winners geocaching.com profile.

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Just a reminder to post up your pics with the "attended" logs. So far there are only 10 unique cachers with photos, which is making it difficult to find 10 favourites. I realize not everyone frequents these forums, so if you know another cacher that was there please encourage them to post the pics. Hopefully the Turtles can send an event announcement as a reminder.

As a teaser these ones have made it into my top 10 so far, but could be bumped if/when more pictures arrive.

Restless10101 : 3 Moons over whipsaw
Scruffster : cave exploration
Chewy_06 : before noon panorama
dloubert : "sally" conquers another one
Adroit Seeker : On top of the world - What a view!
Gearhedd : Me on the whipsaw run

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I am in the process of logging caches, and I write fairly long logs, so it takes a LOOOONNNNGGGG time to get them all done...but I am coming up on the Copper Rush log and I will have some photos to include....including one of Mr Turtle at his wedding that is very Indiana Jones like

I have never had so much trouble uploading photos. Again I'm getting.....The Image upload system is currently down for maintainence. Please try again later. for hollyburn attended [Event Cache] The Great Copper Rush View

In light of all the upload issues and the likelihood that many cachers took an extended holiday, I will be extending the deadline to Aug 21st for all photo submissions. I want to be sure that everyone that wanted to, gets a chance at it.

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Firstly I would like to thank every one for submitting pictures.
It was sooo tough to pick my top 10 favorites and unfortunately there was some really great shots that I love, but narrowing it down to 10 was necessary. So I am sorry to some of you that didn't make my top ten. Perhaps if I do this again next year, I will do it a little differently but this is the way that I had committed to doing it.

I then used the integer generator at www.random.org/integers/
to pick a number 1-10, 1000 times. Analyzing the list of integers gives me the winner by the most frequently drawn number. Here are the results of 1000 draws:

1. 98
2. 108
3. 92
4. 80
5. 118
6. 95
7. 102
8. 102
9. 94
10. 111

As we can see by looking at the list the winner was #5 with 118 draws.....

Mr. Wilson & a Mt. Goat - Dust!

Thanks once again to every one for their contribution!

Mr. Wilson, please send me your shipping info and I will get it shipped out to you asap.

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